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| Louis Armstrong | Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy | 1954 | 
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| Ornette Coleman | Change of the Century | 1960 |
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| John Coltrane | Giant Steps | 1960 |
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| Miles Davis | Miles Ahead | 1957 |
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| Dizzy Gillespie | Birk's Works | 1957 |
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| Milt Jackson and John Coltrane | Bags & Trane | 1961 |
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| Charles Mingus | Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | 1964 |
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| Thelonious Monk | Genius of Modern Music (Volume One) | 1951 |
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| Thelonious Monk | Monk's Music | 1958 |
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| The Quintet |
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